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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Second Language Writing is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	152
Book Review	75
Past JSLW Editor Rosa M. Manchón speaks: Ilona Leki & Tony Silva’s invitation to co-edit the journal—my reflection	50
Influence of a perspective oriented task, executive function, and trait perspective taking on EFL Writing	49
Expertise in L2 writing instruction: The road less travelled	49
Task repetition and L2 written performance: A meta-analysis	44
Generative artificial intelligence and second language writing	42
Generative AI: Same same but different?	37
Book review	34
The effects of incorporating mindset intervention in L2 English writing on Chinese college EFL students’ learning engagement and writing performance	32
Grammatical complexity: Insights from English for academic purposes teachers	31
Book Review	29
The effects of task complexity on second language writing processes and products in computer-assisted collaborative writing	28
Book review	28
Editorial Board	27
Is corrective feedback during telecollaboration beneficial? The effects of peer and teacher corrections on L2 writing proficiency	27
Critical language awareness and English for Research Publication Purposes	24
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	23
Editorial Board	22
The gold standard for the teaching profession: A rejoinder	19
Book review	18
From the other side of the desk: Supervisors’ perceptions of supervisory feedback	18
Book review	18
Editorial Board	17
Introduction to the special issue: Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as a lens for looking backward, outward, and forward in Second Language Writing	17

CLA and WPA: A justice-oriented approach to writing program administration	14
Connecting source use and argumentation in L2 integrated argumentative writing performance	14
Book review	14
Revisiting the conceptualizations of feedback in second language writing: a metaphor analysis approach	14
Editorial Board	14
AI or student writing? Analyzing the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing and AI-generated assignments	13
Book Review	13
Language quality, content, structure: What analytic ratings tell us about EFL writing skills at upper secondary school level in Germany and Switzerland	13
Book review	13
Editorial Board	13
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”	12
JSLW editorial for March 2025	12
Getting a grip on the writing process: (Effective) approaches to write argumentative and narrative texts in L1 and L2	12
Book review	12
“It can be a very equalizing way to grade”: Contract grading and multilingual writers	11
Tunnel, teapot, mermaid, ghost: Creative-critical practice as critical language awareness	11
Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement	11
To grade is not to grade?: Exploring ungrading in the teaching of L2 writing	11
Translanguaging with generative AI in EFL writing: Students’ practices and perceptions	10
The development and validation of a scale on student AI literacy in L2 writing: A domain-specific perspective	10
Scholarly trends and representations of L2 writers in second language writing: A corpus-assisted discourse study	10
Book review	10
Teachers’ conceptualizations of digital multimodal composing in L2 writing	10
Book review	10
An argument for globalized L2 writing methodological innovation	10
Editorial	10
Editorial Board	10
Book Review	9
The need for critical digital literacies in generative AI-mediated L2 writing	8
Research trends in L2 written corrective feedback: A bibliometric analysis of three decades of Scopus-indexed research on L2 WCF	8
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	8
Beyond models: SLW teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and instructional practices with mentor texts	8
Developing and evaluating an empirically-based diagnostic checklist for assessing second language integrated writing	8
Book Review	8
Book review	8
Understanding the impact of teacher feedback on EFL students’ use of self-regulated writing strategies	8
Ungrading as an assessment philosophy: Reliability, validity, and practicality	8
The effects of completing collaborative or independent writing on the development of language use in individual writing	8
Second-language writing development of adult immigrants following three study paths reflecting their varying levels of prior education	7
Developing L2 writing abilities through an instructional enrichment program informed by dynamic assessment	7
Promoting second language writing autonomy through digital multimodal composing	7
A large-scale longitudinal study of syntactic complexity development in EFL writing: A mixed-effects model approach	7
Voices from L2 learners across different languages: Development and validation of a student writing assessment literacy scale	7
Book Review	7
Towards a GELT-informed pedagogy for multilingual writing: Expanding Tardy’s case	7
Editorial Board	6
Introduction to JSLW’s 30th anniversary special issue	6
The value of models to support students' voice in middle school social studies argument writing	6
JSLW@30: The founders & past editors speak	6
A measure of EFL argumentative writing cognitive load: Scale development and validation	6

The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language	6
The role of communicative purpose in describing and interpreting lexico-grammatical variation in L2 writing	6
Book Review	5
Book review	5
Editorial Board	5
Book Review	5
Towards a reconciliatory approach to ungrading in writing classes: A response to Crusan	5
Exploring complexity at the lexis-grammar interface: Diversity and sophistication of verb-argument structures in L2 Dutch writing	4
Editorial Board	4
Academic socialization with generative AI: A longitudinal case study of an L2 graduate student’s academic literacies development	4
Towards a raciolinguistically informed GELT paradigm in teaching multilingual writing	4
L2 writing anxiety, working memory, and task complexity in L2 written performance	4
Zooming in on the process-product nexus of meaning-related revisions: A micro-analytic approach to keystroke logging data	4
Writing in L2 Greek: Exploring the effect of L2 proficiency and learning context on complexity, accuracy, and fluency	4
Book Review	4
Translanguaging pedagogy in EAP writing: A multilingual Qazaq instructor’s perspective	4
Co-regulation strategies and their associations with writing self-efficacy in a computer-mediated collaborative writing setting	4
June 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	4
Critical language awareness through advocacy: Disrupting deficit discourse through simulation in L2 writing teacher education	4
The effects of AWE and peer feedback on cohesion and coherence in continuation writing	4
Book review	3
Editorial Board	3
Secondary school English teachers’ application of artificial intelligence-guided chatbot in the provision of feedback on student writing: An activity theory perspective	3
The use of spelling and reference tools in second language writing: Their impact on students’ writing performance and process	3
A bibliometric analysis on L2 writing in the first 20 years of the 21st century: Research impacts and research trends	3
Book review	3
Expertise in second language writing instruction	3
Mapping the interactions between task sequencing, anxiety, and enjoyment in L2 writing development	3
AI tools as affordances and contradictions for EFL writers: Emic perspectives and L1 use as a resource	3
Critical language awareness and cautious transnationalist work	3
Critical language awareness in L2 writing: Starting por la autorreflexión, 自我反省	2
March 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	2
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	2
Book review	2
Book review	2
Lexical characteristics of young L2 English learners’ narrative writing at the start of formal instruction	2
Theoretical perspectives and factors influencing machine translation use in L2 writing: A scoping review	2
The plurality of English in Global Englishes	2
March 2025 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	2
Book review	2
Book review	2
Source-based writing of the high- and low-proficiency adolescent writer in the high-school L2 classroom	2
Assessing syntactic and lexicogrammatical use in second language Mandarin writing samples	2
June 2025 JSLW annotated bibliography	2
Book review	2
Editorial Board	1
Book Review	1
Book review	1
Enhancing genre instruction on research proposal introductions with an online academic writing tutor	1
Verb argument constructions in argumentative essays by college-level Asian learners of English: Exploring the effects of English proficiency, acquisition context, and topic	1
Exploring EFL learners’ engagement and draft quality in a multi-stage expository writing task using model texts as a feedback facilitator: A mixed-methods study	1
Incorporating digital multimodal composition in content teaching: A multimodal analysis of students’ legal popularization videos	1
Book review	1
The case for a GELT paradigm in teaching multilingual writing	1
Book Review	1
Book review	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Book review	1
Book review	1
Editorial	1
Writing teacher feedback literacy: Surveying second language teachers’ knowledge, values, and abilities	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Western-trained Vietnamese teachers’ EFL writing instruction: A collaborative autoethnography of tensions, emotion, and agency from an activity theoretical perspective	1
Book Review	1
Another contradiction in AI-assisted second language writing	1
Writing performance and discourse organization in L2 Chinese: A longitudinal case study	1
Testing crowdsourcing as a means of recruitment for the comparative judgement of L2 argumentative essays	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Stories behind the scenes: L2 students’ cognitive processes of multimodal composing and traditional writing	1
Book Review	1
From the Editors: June, 2022	1
Book review	1